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Article 42
 

42.1. The General Council will create the temporary commissions that it considers necessary to discharge its duties, and these will always be presided over by an Electoral Councilor.


42.2. Regardless of the provisions of the previous paragraph, the following commissions will be continuously operational and will be exclusively integrated by Electoral Councilors appointed by the General Council: the Electoral Training and Civic Education Commission; the Electoral Organization Commission; the Prerogatives and Political Parties Commission; the National Professional Electoral Service Commission; the Commission of the Federal Register of Voters; the Reports and Complaints Commission; the Auditing Commission, and the Commission on Liaising with the Local Public Bodies. The Electoral Councilors could participate in up to four of the previous mentioned commissions for a period of three years; the presidency of these commissions will rotate annually between its members.


42.3. For each electoral process, the Electoral Training and Civic Education Commission and the Electoral Organization Commission will be merged to integrate the Commission of Electoral Training and Organization; the General Council will, in September of the year prior to the election, appoint its members and the Electoral Councilor who which will preside over it.


42.4. All the commissions will be integrated by no less than three and no more than five Electoral Councilors; the Councilors from the Legislative Branch, as well as the representatives of the political parties, can participate in them with the right to speak but not to vote, except for in the National Professional Electoral Service Commission, the Complaints and Reports Commission, and the Auditing Commission. 


42.5. The General Council will create the Commission on Liaising with the Local Public Bodies, which will be continuously operational and will be integrated by four Electoral Councilors appointed by a majority of at least eight votes of the General Council for a period of three years and the presidency will rotate annually between its members.


42.6. The permanent commissions will have a technical secretary who will be the head of the corresponding Executive Directorate or Technical Unit.


42.7. The head of the Executive Directorate or of the technical unit can be substituted in his functions as technical secretary by the one level lower public servant of his choice.


42.8. In all the matters they are entrusted with, the commissions should present a report, opinion or draft resolution, depending on the case, in the timeframe established by this Law or the regulations and agreements by the General Council.


42.9. The Executive Secretary of the General Council will collaborate with the commissions for the ful f llment of the tasks they have been entrusted with.


42.10. The General Council, according to the available budget of the Institute, could create special technical committees for specific activities or programs, in which it requires the technical scientific support or advice of specialists on the matters it considers necessary.